Mary Peltola defeats Sarah Palin, Wins Bid to Serve Full Term in the House for Alaska https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/23/us/politics/mary-peltola-alaska-house-race.html

Some people are just as hateful and intolerant as they people they hate and accuse of intolerance. They just refuse to recognize that fact.

Trump’s Legal Problems All Converged Into One Day of Spectacular Failures https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trumps-legal-problems-all-converged-into-one-day-of-spectacular-failures

Pence is "considering the request"? GOP politicians in the MAGA era are so pompous in the way they think they can pick and choose which laws they will obey or which legal authorities they will cooperate with.

Justice Dept. Seeking to Question Pence in Jan. 6 Investigation https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/23/us/politics/mike-pence-jan-6.html

There may be a line that can be drawn between a group's rhetoric and the actions of an antisocial killer, but it certainly won't be a straight line. Life is more complicated than that.

Attempts to use them as poster children to indict whole groups of people you dislike by saying that this violence is inherent to the group--that they are all inherently murderous killers--will thus end up in failure.

Since some people appear to be a little dense, let's be clear: The idea that a spree killer would have views and an outlook on life identical to a relatively normal person in the cultural environment that surrounds them is absurd. There is something wrong with their heads.

Could it be that certain political or religious leaders may have created an atmosphere that encouraged them to act out in their fantasies? Certainly. But it would be surprising to find any consistency or logic in the beliefs of someone who just whacked a group of people.

People who go on shooting sprees are by definition off-the-chain. It's not really helpful to speculate on their motivations, except to note that usually they are acting out fantasies that they have nursed for a long time.

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So far, I've been spending all my time blocking or muting people over there without actually seeing very many posts that are worthwhile or getting much interaction.

And I should use Mastodon because that's where all the snooty people post? Seems to be the case.

Seen on Mastodon: "I ride a bike! I'm better than all you damned fools who drive cars and end up having to look for parking spaces."

I block pompous asses like this. Most people don't live in cities practical for bike riding. I know I don't.

60 years ago, Billboard #7 for the week of Nov. 19, 1962: THE ORLONS don't hang up https://youtu.be/dvfBsFj6Nts

This is one of those songs I haven't heard played in decades, but I often find myself humming.

50 years ago, Billboard #7 for the week of Nov. 19, 1972: Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes - If You Don't Know Me By Now https://youtu.be/C1Qgh0_JF5o

As Tim Miller notes in this incendiary post, the decision by Colorado Springs to not invoke the red flag law that would have saved 5 lives was not through neglect: It was an active choice to prioritize the right of the criminally insane to own guns over the lives of others.

Politicians in Colorado Springs Chose Flouting Gun Laws Over People's Lives https://open.substack.com/pub/thetriad/p/politicians-in-colorado-springs-chose